The VW ID R is fast becoming my favorite race car. VW Motorsport Dumas and the ID R set the fastest time of the day in 2018 but were more than a second shy of breaking the record, held since 1999 by Nick Heidfeld and the McLaren F1 team. VW Motorsport But in 2019 the car was lighter and better optimized, and Dumas crossed the line in under 40 seconds. VW Motorsport Dumas (L) talks to his engineer. He now holds overall records at Pikes Peak and Goodwood, and the electric car record at the Nurburgring. VW Motorsport This is the Extreme-E electric off-roader. Extreme-E The Extreme-E is a tube-frame car, built by Spark. The batteries come from Williams Advanced Engineering. Extreme-E The series will sail around the world and race in places like the Himalayas and the Arctic. Extreme-E The Odyssey 21 on the hillclimb course Extreme-E YouTuber Seb Delanney drove DevBot 2.0 off the line, but stopped in front of Goodwood House. Roborace/Goodwood Delanney got out, the car signaled a few times with its LED panels, and then drove off without him. Roborace/Goodwood The view from DevBot 2.0. Roborace/Goodwood Samsung used Goodwood to demo 5G, by using it to enable this Lincoln to be driven remotely. Samsung It's called the S-Drone. Samsung Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr drove the S-Drone from a remote location using a steering wheel controller and VR goggles. Dave Benett/Getty Images for Samsung
After smashing records at Pikes Peak and the Nüburgring with the ID R electric vehicle, Volkswagen and Romain Dumas added a third notch to their belts this past weekend. The setting couldn't have been more different from Colorado's high-speed, high-altitude mountain or the racetrack they call the Green Hell: the team went to Goodwood in England, a genteel country estate that's home to the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Part garden party, part car show, the Festival of Speed is also a competitive event, with a 1.15-mile (1.87km) hillclimb up past Goodwood House. In 1999, the McLaren Formula 1 team and driver Nick Heidfeld ran the course in just 41.6 seconds. That was fast enough to make Lord Charles March, the organizer, Read More – Source
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